Another cabin story.....posted on Facebook but worth sharing........ This cabin is an old and battered trapper's hut in East Greenland, in the area where we worked in 1962 with the OU East Greenland Expedition. In 1970 a member of another expedition came across the hut and decided to stop the night there. There was no means of lighting, so he thought he'd root around to see if there were any candles anywhere. In a dark windowless room at the end of the shack he found a big box which seemed to contain a nice supply of candles. It was too dark to see what he was doing. So he lit a match and was just about to light one of the "candles" when he realized that it felt a bit squishy. So he looked more carefully at it, by the light of the match flame, and saw that it was a stick of dynamite. The box was full of old sticks of dynamite, obviously left by some geological prospecting party years before. (The explosives had probably been intended for geophysical / seismic work.) Not only that, but next to the box were some glass jars that contained nitro glycerine.......... so there we are then.
The explorer lived to tell the tale. Take whatever lessons from it that may be appropriate......
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